Moon mosaic 19-9-2011 8 Megapixels

[Avdhoeven]

I already mentioned this one in my earlier post, but I think it deserves a separate topic . This image I made two nights ago using a 2,5x powermate on an ED110 with a DMK21. 40 movies were made and mosaiced using Imerge...

http://www.astro-photo.nl/raw/last_q...n_19092011.jpg

[Earl]

AWESOME !!!!

I really should get a luna scope.

[ComputerPhysicsLab]

Lovely image. Very sharp.

[nightfisher]

very nice image

[Gadget]

That really is amazing stuff

Kevin

[astropete]

pow material. fantastic. thanks for sharing.

[Steve 1962]

Wonderful mosaic - very sharp but natural looking - I think you've got the exposure bang on

Steve

[ScubaMike]

stunning, simply stunning.

You've captured a fabulous image there.

[Demonperformer]

Excellent result

Can I ask which part of the moon you use to judge the correct exposure for a mosaic like this. In my attempts, I am finding that I either lose the detail in the shadow or burn out the bright parts, and (as previously stated by Steve 1962) you seem to have got it spot on.

Thanks

[Avdhoeven]

I set the exposure using the brightest part of the moon in which I want to have details. Then after taken the images I use curves to take up the dark parts a bit. In that you loose often some contrast. I then copy the layer in photoshop, put a highpass (20) over it and set this layer as soft light over the original image...

[jgs001]

Very nice and crispy... excellent work

[thegoatboy]

That is a peach fair play.

[theodoros1978]

crisp crip crispy moon! loved it!

[Rossco72]

Some nice work there, especially around the terminator. If I was being picky, maybe just a shade bleached out on the sun side...

But lots of effort and a great image to boot.

Cheers

[Dave Smith]

That is an amazing image with much interesting detail. I would tend to agree with Stuart but it is still a fantastic image. I am amazed that you can get such detail with only 40 frames. Did you use EQmosaic to help with the efficiency or were you popping each avi into iMerge as you went?

Dave

Dave